[R] mclust - clustering by spatial patterns

[Thomas W Blackwell]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Murray Jorgensen wrote:

> Thomas W Blackwell wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > Why not simply use  dist()  and  hclust() ?   Starting with
> > presence/absence data, what could  mclust()  possibly do that
> > is different from  hclust() ?
>
> Um, fit a statistical model.

Yes, but ellipsoidal contours don't seem awfully useful
in the discrete space of n = 4000 binary indicator variables.

> >
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